As much as I love Fedor, GSP and Silva, I just have a hard time likening their dominance to what a prime Roy Jones Jr. was to boxing.

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i kinda agree with that if you look at it that way, its a young sport.. boxing had greats early on, shit before it even had rules. you barely hear about any of them these days though, its all ali, foreman, marciano, louis, frazier, etc but there were legends before them

That's a common misconception. Boxing is still paying fighters more and bringing in more via PPV's. It's true that MMA markets itself better and is the fight sport for the ADD generation. It makes sense that young athletes would gravitate towards it... your chances of becoming UFC champion are much greater than your chances of becoming WBC/WBO/IBF/WBA champion.

You know how everyone always argues over who a person has fought to deserve to be called as good as they are? Shogun is one of only probably 3 people nobody can say built his career by just being a can killer. Rampage, Arona, Overeem, liddell, lil nog, coleman, randleman, machida. I mean, son of a bitch. Dude not only beat a whos who of lhw but went ahead and whooped a few dudes who have made waves at hw as well.

Make no mistake about it, best light heavyweight of all time. only dude that can touch his resume is rampage.

and yes, the two greatest lhws of all time got beat by forrest griffin. different topic, different day.